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> The mention that they plan to remove XUL usage within Firefox (which is a good idea) is interesting. It's strange that XUL survives for so long. Adding an ad
by _pmf_ 11y ago
> The mention that they plan to remove XUL usage within Firefox (which is a good idea) is interesting.
It's strange that XUL survives for so long. Adding an additional markup language to CSS, JS and HTML/DOM to be used for extension development has been bold. For some time, they would have had the chance to push XUL for general development (when Qt and WPF/XAML were not yet that much more modern).
- TazeTSchnitzel 11y agoWell, they did try to push it for other things. That was their original intention. Of course, it didn't catch on, so Firefox was stuck with an obscure UI language only it used.